Why bother? (Part 2)
Coming from a somewhat different direction from that of my Cape Town Compatriot MtK:
Why bother with an second-hand obsolete laptop? If it's more than two years old, the battery will be shot (and a new battery will likely be about the same as you pay for the laptop). And laptops lead a hard life - so you may find that other bits and pieces may not have much life left in them (think hard disks and CD-ROM drives). The screen will be dimmer than it used to be (and considerably dimmer than a new laptop). The screen hinges won't be quite as firm as they used to be ... Want me to go on?
I too used to go to the 2nd hand market for laptops - but the price of new ones have come down so much that it's no longer really worthwhile to buy 2nd hand.
And it sorts out the problem about OS system disks - because it will still be under war-and-tee!
Last edited by Feline; 27th May 2009 at 20:43.
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